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Bhagavad Gita 13.24

ध्यानेनात्मनि पश्यन्ति केचिदात्मानमात्मना।अन्ये सांख्येन योगेन कर्मयोगेन चापरे॥

dhyānenātmani paśyanti kecidātmānamātmanā |anye sāṃkhyena yogena karmayogena cāpare ||

Some behold the Self within themselves through meditation, others through the Yoga of knowledge, and still others through the Yoga of action.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Some realize the Supreme by meditating, with its aid, on the Self within; others by pure reason; and still others by right action.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 13.24 · SatsangVidya